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Sponsored: A tower defense-style game in Unity (part 1)
Since tower defense is one of the most common game types you can find on the app stores out there, I decided to try my luck and create one from scratch, using Unity3D. Here's how I did it.
July 17, 2015
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These devs swear to stop selling their game when enough players die
Dutch studio Vogelsap is gearing up to launch its asymmetrical multiplayer horror game The Flock with an intriguing twist: when too many players die in-game, it will be removed from sale forever.
July 16, 2015
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Video: Watch Deus Ex devs recount its creation as they play it
Deus Ex director Warren Spector, assistant director Chris Norden and lead writer Sheldon Pacotti sit down to play their seminal game for an hour and share stories of its development.
July 16, 2015
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Video: Applying human evolutionary psychology to game design
Why are survival games so popular? At GDC 2014, Crypt of the NecroDancer dev Ryan Clark explores how we evolved as humans, why we want the things we want, and how that affects the way we play games.
July 16, 2015
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Get a job: Be a Mobile Game Engineer for Sega Networks 2
The team at Sega Networks' Three Rings studio in Philadelphia, PA are looking to hire a mobile game programmer (C# and Java experience preferred) to help develop new mobile games.
July 16, 2015
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Video: Satoru Iwata - Disrupting Development
"Video games are meant to be just one thing. Fun. Fun for everyone," says late Nintendo president in this 2006 GDC keynote speech, delivered as the Wii was about to shake up the industry.
July 16, 2015
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Start your own game company right: Advice from the 2015 Game Career Guide
In this edition, the founder of MK-Ultra Games offers advice for fellow indie game makers starting their own companies: take it seriously, get your paperwork straight, and don't spend your own money!
July 16, 2015
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Postmortem: Technocrat's cyberpunk adventure game Technobabylon
James Dearden of Technocrat Games talks about the highs and lows developing Technobabylon, a classic 1990s-style cyberpunk adventure game that was five years in the making.
July 15, 2015
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Get a job: Monolith Productions is hiring a Lead Character Artist
The house responsible for Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor is looking for an artist to serve as a character design lead alongside the rest of the team at Monolith's Kirkland, Washington office.
July 15, 2015
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When numbers and narrative live in harmony
Hanako Games' visual novel Black Closet balances narrative with tabletop-style dice rolls without getting bogged down in a meaningless numbers game, says columnist Katherine Cross.
July 15, 2015
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Kongregate's new Launchpad program aims to take web games mobile
Kongregate's new incubator is being marketed to indie game makers as a program to help them design, fund and promote their game on the web -- and if it does well enough, on mobile as well.
July 15, 2015
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World's first F2P console MOBA eSports event is a $150K Smite tourney
Hi-Rez Studios' upcoming sponsored eSports event, the Smite World Championships, will for the first ever include a Smite Xbox One Invitational with a $150,000 prize pool.
July 15, 2015